Hyunmoo-5 deployment to begin by year-end amid rising North Korean ICBM threat

SEOUL, October 17 (AJP) - South Korea will begin deploying its 8-ton "Hyunmoo-5" ballistic missile by the end of this year, as part of its effort to reinforce deterrence against North Kora's advancing nuclear threat. The Defense Ministry confirmed the plan to AJP on Friday

Samsung Biologics officially sheds biosimilar unit to expand as pure CMO

Graphics by AJP Song Ji-yoon SEOUL, October 17 (AJP) - Samsung Biologics Co., already the world's largest contract-based drugmaker by capacity, has won full shareholders' blessing to shed its biosimilar business and double down on its global biological outreach as a pur

Seoul mulls expanding organ donor criteria amid dire shortage

SEOUL, October 17 (AJP) - Korea is considering expanding its organ donor eligibility to include patients who experience cardiac arrest after withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, joining a small group of countries that permit organ donation beyond brain-dead cases. The move comes a